Interactive Episode FAQs

This is a drama where you control the story. There will be moments during the episode where you must make decisions. The results of your choices will affect the course of the action.

No - the characters are fictional but what happens to them is based on a variety of real accounts of soldiers who fought in World War One - and the choices you make. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Browsers supported for desktop:

• Chrome (version 31 or higher)
• Safari 7
• Internet Explorer 11
• Firefox (version 29 or higher)

Tablet devices supported:

• iPad 2 (iOS 7.1 and above)
• iPad 3 (iOS 7.1 and above)
• iPad 4 (iOS 7.1 and above)
• iPad mini (iOS 7.1 and above)
• Google Nexus 7 (Android OS 4.2.2 jelly bean and above)
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7" & 10") (Android OS)

Your progress through the story is automatically stored in-browser. If you exit at any point and then return, you will start again from the part you last completed.

At the end of each part of the story, you will find out more about the choices you made. You will also be given feedback around ‘Tactics’, ‘Morale’ and ‘Leadership.’

Tactics is based on what would have been the militarily correct decision in 1916. The higher the score, the more accurately your choices reflect what a soldier at the time would have done.

Morale reflects how the choices you’ve made affect the mood of the men. The higher the score, the happier the other characters are about your decisions. It is possible for this to be at odds with the best tactical decisions.

Leadership is a cumulative score that builds up across all 3 parts of the story. It is based on an average of your Tactics and Morale score for each act. It provides an indication of your overall success as a leader.

Whilst making the decisions that best reflect those of a contemporary solider will give you the highest leadership score, the interactive episode is not about winning or losing but about coming to understand something of the experience of young soldiers in 1916.

You can play through the interactive episode as many times as you like. There is a ‘Reset Progress’ button available from the Help Screen that will allow you to start again from the beginning.

There are subtitles available for all the live action and motion comic sequences. They can be turned on and off from the ‘Help’ menu.

A list of credits is available in the feedback screen at the end of each part of the story.

The interactive episode of Our World War features the following tracks:

• Queens Of The Stone Age – Misfit Love
• Nine Inch Nails – Something I Can Never Have
• The War On Drugs – In Reverse
• Nine Inch Nails – The Day The World Went Away
• Bon Iver – Lisbon, OH

Locked items will automatically unlock as you make decisions and progress through the story.

For any technical issues you experience or general feedback about the game, you can let us know at ww1@bbc.co.uk - we regret that we may not be able to respond to all individual emails.